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to protect / to defend / to guard against / to prevent
HSK 3
to prevent / to take precautions against / to protect / to guard against / precautionary / prophylactic
HSK 3
firefighting / fire control
HSK 5
national defense
HSK 7-9
civil air defence (abbr. for 人民防空)
city defense
(so as) to avoid / to prevent / (just) in case
dike / embankment / levee
(gaming) tower defense
to guard against / to be vigilant / watch you don't (slip) / Taiwan pr. [ti2 fang2]
HSK 7-9
(idiom) virtually impossible to prevent
lit. easy to dodge the spear in the open, hard to avoid a stab in the dark (idiom); it is hard to guard against secret conspiracies
guardedness; wariness; mental defenses
to attack and defend (usu. in reference to opposing sides, but can be one party playing both roles)
(video games) to break through an opponent's defenses / (slang) to break through sb's emotional defenses; to get to sb emotionally
air force / air defense
Haiphong, a major port city in northern Vietnam
coastal defense
to take strict precautions / on your guard
to be caught off guard / without warning
to reinforce defenses
to lay out a defense
frontier defense
unexpectedly / suddenly / at unawares / off guard / against expectations
to set up defenses / to fortify
to relieve a garrison
to relieve a garrison / to change guard complement
fortified gate
lit. easy to dodge the spear in the open, hard to avoid a stab in the dark (idiom); it is hard to guard against secret conspiracies
security measures (esp. border security) / official seal (esp. military seal during Qing and Ming times)
to guard against / to beware of
suddenly / unexpectedly / taken by surprise / at unawares
Kinderdijk, village in the Netherlands with a large network of windmills attracting many tourists


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